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Democrats Use Italian Stereotype
Jun 27, 2008 | 8:33 AM
Category: Political
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This one hits close to home. I have suffered my entire adult life from Mafia jokes. I've worked in education most of my professional career, mostly with avowed Leftists. When one colleague discovered the term "WOP" it was tossed out in my direction regularly.

Now, I'm not the sensitive type and I can take a joke... but it does get tiresome. In the political arena, however, it is serious business to mock the ethnicity of a candidate.

The Democratic Party in WA has attacked candidate Dino Rossi and threw in the suggestion that ALL Italians are mob connected. I would like to remind the Left that the "mob" was broken by mostly Italian DAs and cops. It was Mayor Giuliani who reduced the mob families to shells of their former selves.

In a year where Democrats see racist appeals everywhere, it’s stunning that they would introduce an ad that plays on ethnic stereotypes in such an obvious way. Can you imagine the reaction if Republicans produced an anti-Obama ad with rap music playing in the background? - The Weekly Standard [Excerpt]


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my_view view my photos
Jun 29, 2008 | 12:42 PM

It sounds like they can dish it out but can't take it.
mayberryman
Jun 29, 2008 | 10:27 PM

Wow, I'm confused (but that's become a state of normalcy for me). You take offense at the WOP/mob thing (as you should), but in another post, you defend Limbaugh's blatantly racist rant and insist it isn't racist. How does that work?
bleechers read my blog view my photos
Jun 30, 2008 | 11:39 AM

It works this way... Limbaugh never mentions race, uses no racial stereotype, has no history of racism and uses no derogatory wording. He was comparing the effects of socialist policies in NOLA with the values engendered in small-town, Midwestern communities. You're the one who cannot see beyond race.

The Democrats regularly use race (ethnicity) and, in this case, a blatant stereotype.

That should end the confusion.
mayberryman
Jul 6, 2008 | 11:21 PM

Uh, nope...you failed (again), bleechers. I was wondering how you could take offense to the ethnocentric stereotype you happened to have been born into, and at the same time defend a post that includes such statements as "Select a city like New Orleans, with a large Negro population and compare it to another similar sized city without the large Negro poplutation, like let's say Minneapolis Minnesota or Salt Lake City, Utah. Soon it will be very apparent where the violent crime is and who the perpetrators truly are." Oooh, Camus was right; the dynamics of the absurd truly CAN strike you anywhere, anytime...
bleechers read my blog view my photos
Jul 11, 2008 | 12:22 PM

Could you give me a link to that quote from Limbaugh?

Thanks.
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I enjoy such diverse topics as baseball, history, politics, TV, music, cartoons, pop culture and theology. I am particularly drawn to the Revolutionary period of American history. I attended Page HS and graduated from UNCG. I have played for a number of years in the local music scene and I still record and play original music. I'm an Italian-American, bass-playing Phillies fan father of four!

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